With Confucius Institute as a platform, SHNU boasts its special feature and strength in international co-operation and exchanges, aiming to promote Sino-foreign trading relations and economic development through Chinese teaching and study.
After the first overseas Confucius Institute was founded in Fukuyama University in April, 2008, SHNU has negotiated with Botswana University, Redford University and Kent State University on the matter. Currently, Confucius Institute of Fukuyama University and Botswana University have started relevant classes and outstanding SHNU teachers have been dispatched there.
Through establishing overseas Confucius institutes with institutions of higher education in foreign countries, SHNU contributes a lot to the dissemination of Chinese culture, making the Confucius institutes a bridge of friendship and cross-culture communication connecting Asia, Africa and America.
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